Fundamental group of homotopy colimits. (Q1427015)
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Fundamental group of homotopy colimits. (English)
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14 March 2004
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The author formulates a generalised van Kampen theorem in the following way: the fundamental groupoid functor preserves homotopy colimits. In order to do this, he develops a theory of homotopy colimits for diagrams of groupoids. He gives applications to the Bass-Serre theory of groups acting on trees, and to the fundamental groups of orbit spaces.
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van Kampen theorem
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fundamental groupoid
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fundamental group
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homotopy colimits of diagrams of groupoids
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